Couple walk by in time to save love lock

Craig Ploog said he and his fiancee, Emily Thompson, attached a lock to the bridge in 2013.

"It was a bit of a novelty," Mr Ploogs said.

"We'd heard about them being in Paris, the love locks, and it was an anniversary present a couple of years ago, when we'd just got engaged," he said.

"I just thought it'd be a nice night out, a nice way to maybe get a bit of a kiss at the end of the night."

He said he and Ms Thompson were walking in the area when they saw the locks being removed.

"I heard that all the locks were getting snipped off, and just saw all the workers and thought I'd go up and ask ... I never thought about getting it back to be honest, I just thought I'd ask because it's a nice little memento of the love lock bridge," he said.

"They've been up there for three years now; in Paris they've taken them off the Pont de l'Archeveche, in New York they give you about three minutes before they take them of, so we think three years is a pretty good run."

Ms Thompson said while it was sad to see the locks removed, she understood the council's reasons.

"Obviously it's not actually built to have the locks on here," she said.

"It was cool every time that we did actually walk over to have a look at it, and even for everyone else's, we put on ours a good couple of years ago and there wasn't nearly as many as now.

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